The above headline is the theme for this year’s Amerindian Heritage Month and there are three things in September that fit this theme well.
On Monday we celebrate ‘Heritage Day’; the day Stephen Campbell made history and sat in one of those chairs in the National Assembly. Stephen who? Good grief! It’s sad when the majority of Guyanese forget their own culture.
Stephen Joseph Campbell was the very first Amerindian (from the Arawak tribe) to be elected to the Legislative Council of British Guiana on September 10, 1957. That elected position is
